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To: hmmm <hmmm@alaska.net>
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Subject: Re: ppp al 
In-reply-to: Your message of "Tue, 24 Sep 1996 18:08:38 -0000."
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Date: Thu, 26 Sep 1996 10:20:02 -0400
From: Mark Plummer <markus@clark.net>
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> On Tue, 24 Sep 1996, Doug White wrote:
> 
> what is the minimun additional configuration required to keep iijppp
> "alive" to an ISP?  has something to do with "afilter", but i guess the
> full explanation is in japanese, cuz it ain't in the standard docs.
> 
> thanks.

dunno, but what follows is a script to be run from cron which will
restart iijppp if it decects it to be down.

markus
- -- Mark Plummer, markus@clark.net, +1 410 796 1272
#=======cut here
#!/bin/sh
PATH=/sbin:/usr/sbin:/bin:/usr/bin
ipaddr="$1" # which ip address to check for basic connectivity
ppptag="$2" # which tag in ppp.conf to use to redial
pppline=`ps -axu | grep "[p][p][p][) ]"`
if [ ! -z "$pppline" ] ; then
  if ping -c 10 $ipaddr 2> /dev/null | grep -q "100% packet loss" ; then
    ppppid=`echo $pppline | awk '{print $2}'`
    kill $ppppid
    sleep 3
    ppp $ppptag > /dev/null 2>&1 &
  fi
else
  ppp $ppptag > /dev/null 2>&1 &
fi